stove

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

stove [stove stoves stoved stoving] BrE [stəʊv] NAmE [stoʊv] noun
1. a piece of equipment that can burn various fuels and is used for heating rooms
•a gas/wood-burning stove
2. (especially NAmE) (BrE also cook·er) (NAmE also range)a large piece of equipment for cooking food, containing an oven and gas or electric rings on top
• She put a pan of water on the stove.
• (NAmE, BrE) Most people don't want to spend hours slaving over a hot stove (= cooking).
see also ↑stave, ↑stove, ↑stove _v.
See also: ↑cooker ▪ ↑range

Word Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘sweating room’): from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German stove; perhaps related to the noun ↑stew.

Example Bank:
•A pan was simmering on the stove.
•A pot of soup was cooking on the stove.
•Don't touch the stove! It's hot.
•I've been slaving over a hot stove all day for you!
•Most people don't want to spend hours slaving over a hot stove.
•There is no heating in the house apart from a small wood-burning stove.
•We cooked dinner outside the tent on a little paraffin stove.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  kitchen stove, range, kitchen range, cooking stove